329/365 - Blooming

This coral rose blooming out in the yard brightened up the day.

209/365 - Petals

This rose is from the same bush as the one a few (Project 365) photos back-- the "stubborn" rose.

206/365 - Stubborn Rose

I'm not sure of its type or name, but this rose has been stubborn enough to continue living and blooming even through neglect. (Thank goodness for hardy plants.)

200/365 - Weird Bug

I can't say exactly what this bug is, but there were several of them lurking among the roses.

Unfortunately, this was the best photo I got of them (on this day, at least). I had a hard time getting the focus just right.

194/365 - Feeding Among the Roses

I found this tiny little insect on one of our hardy pink roses.

This is one of the fun parts of the warm season-- plenty of flowers and insects to photograph.

187/365 - Rose in Springtime

One of our most obliging bushes.

34/365 - Innocence

I was planning to post a photo representing that I had organized (most of) our pantry today, but when it came time to take a photo, it was too dark in there to get a good macro. Photos of carefully stacked and arranged cans turned out a bit boring, and I found I didn't have the heart to inflict the purposely out-of-focus abstract shot upon you. (Not here, at least. It still went into the photostream, though.)

In the end (as you see), I selected an Ortonized photo of a rose-- a photo that is arguably not much more interesting than the canned vegetables were. Oh well. (g)

(The name refers to the fact that one of the things white roses often symbolize is innocence or purity.) 

Editing: Crop, Resize, Ortonizing technique, Curves (individually on each layer), Unsharp Mask, and Clone Stamp (to remove a small but obvious blemish from a petal).